With support from GlobalGiving, UAnimals has been helping animals for over six months now: in shelters across the country and in frontline areas
Over the past few months, with the support of GlobalGiving, we have implemented several large-scale aid initiatives. This work has covered both shelters in the rear, which have become a refuge for evacuated animals, and frontline communities, where veterinary care is now critically needed.
Also in March, together with GlobalGiving’s representative in Ukraine, Oksana Plakhotnyuk, we visited two shelters — “Mirnograd Animals” and “Rifugio.” They are home to cats, dogs, sheep, horses, and even a Vietnamese pig.
The “Mirnograd Animals” shelter is one of the recipients of aid from the Winter Fundraising Campaign — it received a diesel generator to operate during blackouts.
Such visits are very important, as they help demonstrate the real situation in the shelters to our partners, explain the scale of the needs, and showcase the work of local teams and shelters. There are now far more animals living in shelters than before the full-scale war began, and many of them were evacuated by UAnimals rescue teams from frontline areas.
Budget: 752,157 hryvnias.
To ensure shelters can care for animals during winter power outages, we purchased the necessary equipment for heating and food preparation. Thus, during the cold season, we delivered boilers, generators, heaters, batteries, water heaters, and a field kitchen to 17 shelters across Ukraine, which are home to over 5,600 animals.
Budget: 1,130,893.62 hryvnias.
The second key area of focus is “fieldwork”. With support from GlobalGiving, we organized two veterinary missions in the Mykolaiv region (Rybakivka) and the Dnipropetrovsk region (Krynychky). These are areas where veterinary care is virtually nonexistent due to the war, and funding for such projects is invaluable — both for the animals and for their families and caregivers.
Veterinarians provided veterinary care, spayed and neutered cats and dogs, and vaccinated them, as well as advising guardians and caregivers who look after their own and abandoned animals. In total, approximately 700 animals in the frontline areas received assistance. Additionally, during these trips, we distributed 690 kilograms of food for the animals in our care.
The “Hospitals” public association received special support — we donated surgical instruments, coagulators, sterilizers, and medications for animal sterilization (totaling 282,603.40 hryvnias). Also, thanks to support from partners (180,000 hryvnias), the “Sumy Society for the Protection of Animals” purchased a medical trailer — now they have a fully equipped sterile examination room that has the potential to help 500 animals. This organization rescues dozens of animals every day, most of which end up at the shelter after suffering injuries, being evacuated from the border areas, falling ill, or being found on the streets in a state of exhaustion.
Thank you to GlobalGiving for your support, which allows us to help systematically: providing a safe haven for evacuees and rescuing those still under fire.
And we’re not stopping there — we’re already preparing a new veterinary medical mission thanks to funding from GlobalGiving.
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